Putin's Ukraine Gambit — Henry Kissinger once pointed out that since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year. All undone, of course, by the collapse of the Soviet Union, which Russian president Vladimir Putin called “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the [20th] century.”

Formerly Withheld Documents — Please find below documents that were previously withheld under the Presidential Records Act for restrictions P2 (appointment to federal office) and/or P5 (confidential advice between the President and/or his advisors and between those advisors).

What we found in the Clinton documents — CNN is combing through 3,546 pages of documents released Friday by the William J. Clinton Presidential Library. — They open a window into inner Clinton White House operations, and cover topics including the office of former first lady Hillary Clinton …

The Infinite Circle of Black Responsibility — In 2006, after being a United States senator for one year, Barack Obama made an appearance on Meet the Press. After talking about the Iraq War for a while, Tim Russert asked Obama this: “I want to talk a little bit about the language people …

Noonan: America and the Aggressive Left — Half the country feels—and is—beset by government. That's not progress. — The constant mischief of the progressive left is hurting the nation's morale. There are few areas of national life left in which they are not busy, and few in which they're not making it worse.

When May I Shoot a Student? — BOISE, Idaho — TO the chief counsel of the Idaho State Legislature: — In light of the bill permitting guns on our state's college and university campuses, which is likely to be approved by the state House of Representatives in the coming days …

Hidden camera footage surfaces of Supreme Court debate — Hidden camera footage of what appeared to be Supreme Court proceedings from earlier this week surfaced on Thursday, offering one the of the first public recordings of the High Court's proceedings. — A video posted on YouTube …

‘I was given every s*** job in the world by Obama’: Biden makes astonishing revelations about his relationship with the President as it's claimed he was ‘frozen out’ by White House over gay gaffe — Vice President Joe Biden reveals he willingly took the President's more ‘bothersome’ tasks …

Democrats Land Top-Tier Senate Recruit In Mississippi — Former Rep. Travis Childers will be announcing campaign, hoping to exploit GOP divisions in the state. — Former Rep. Travis Childers will be announcing he's running for the Senate seat in Mississippi, according to two sources familiar …

Mt. Gox Files for Bankruptcy — TOKYO — Mt. Gox, the troubled exchange for the virtual currency Bitcoin, filed for bankruptcy protection on Friday and said that it might have lost all of its customers' coins in a hacking attack. — The Tokyo-based exchange, which warned earlier this month …

Four of five FCC study authors gave to Obama — BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL BARACK OBAMA FCC — A significant problem with the now-suspended Federal Communications Commission plan to have government contractors question journalists about editorial decisions and practices was that it was a partisan exercise.

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